About us
The Cochrane Global Ageing Thematic Group is committed to propelling research and enhancing practices to support healthy ageing and longevity worldwide. As we progress through the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030), our mission is to address the multifaceted challenges of global ageing and contribute to better outcomes for people everywhere.
At the heart of our mission is the drive to facilitate the development and maintenance of functional abilities that can ensure wellbeing in older age. Our group will serve as a dynamic hub for sharing and exchanging expert knowledge, aligning with global efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals in this area and mitigate the impacts of the global burden of ill health among older people. Our group also acknowledges that ageing is a lifelong process, so we take a life course approach to our activities.
Team
Our plans
Our vision is to be a global hub for evidence synthesis and knowledge mobilization within our scope. Our main goal is to contribute to Cochrane’s evidence ecosystem by producing, supporting, and mobilizing high-quality evidence, and facilitating timely evidence-informed decision-making across all societal levels in Global Ageing.
Key Focus Areas
In collaboration with our partners, the group will integrate health and social care perspectives from a range of areas, delivering comprehensive and actionable evidence:
- Leadership and Expertise: We aim to lead in prioritising evidence synthesis and supporting evidence production, ensuring our outputs have impact in the areas they are most needed.
- Collaboration and Engagement: We will work closely with Cochrane Geographic and Methods Groups, fostering relationships that enhance local knowledge and strengthen evidence dissemination in this area. We will maintain and extend existing links with the WHO and Campbell Collaboration (e.g., Campbell Ageing Coordinating Group) to ensure we utilise expertise across the world. Global Ageing cuts across several other Thematic Groups so we will strengthen existing collaborations and create new ones to ensure we are capitalizing evidence synthesis.
- Capacity Building: A key focus will be building capacity in low-and-middle-income countries, to address underrepresentation in evidence synthesis and ageing-related research. We will also work towards developing and strengthening ageing and life course-focused approaches in evidence synthesis and knowledge mobilisation.
- Equity and Diversity: By co-producing guidance and involving diverse communities in our projects, we will ensure our work embodies principles of equity and diversity, tackling ageing challenges amongst all communities.
Current key priorities
- Adopt a life course approach to global ageing
- Support the use of “age-inclusive language” across different cultures, contexts and evidence syntheses.
- Incorporate self-reported behavioural outcomes to evidence synthesis
- Understand the interaction of multimorbidity and functionality including its impact on quality of life.
- Collaborate with members of the public, stakeholders and policy makers.
Contact us
For more information about our work or to become involved with the Cochrane Global Ageing Thematic Group, please reach out to us using cochraneglobalageing@gmail.com.